Maker will be playing for Canada. Hopefully humphries dunks on him.

Where is it confirmed that Maker will play for Canada?

It's not confirmed but how can blame him not wanting to represent a country where African immigrants are hated

Bogut will play. It will be the last chance for Mills, Delly, Baynes and him to team up before they are over the hill age wise. With that core 4 and some development from the likes of Exum and Bairstow, we could medal.

mills should start at pg because you know his going to push the ball. delly more poised and better as a defensive guard.

mills 6'0/delly 6'4/exum 6'6
broekhoff 6'7/goulding 6'4
ingles 6'8/newley 6'7/simmons 6'9
baynes 6'10/bairstow 6'10 or motum 6'10
bogut 7'0/ogilvy 6'11 or maric 6'11 or neville 7'2

mills and exum playing the 1 or 2
ingles and newley playing the 2 or 3
simmons playing the 3 or 4
baynes playing the 4 or 5

ogilvy is the most well rounded centre (offensive, defensive, rebounding, block shots, fg and ft%)
maric is a brick, super strong but limited on both ends of the floor.
neville is pretty well rounded but doesnt accumulate as many stats as you would like. can step out and shoot the mid range also.

Interesting that people are putting Exum/Simmons so far back in the rotation. After two NBA seasons i expect Exum to be much improved and according to scouts Simmons is NBA ready now.

I posted it in a previous thread but mine -

Bogut/Baynes
Bairstow/Motum/Maker
Ingles/Simmons/Broekhoff
Mills/Goulding
Exum/Delly

You could also replace Broekhoff/Goulding with Adel/Bolden but it's a bit wait and see with then still.

Playing devil's advocate here but bear in mind the possibility of injury to one or more of our key players. Especially if a lot of our squad is in the NBA playing a 82-100+ game season.

Mills had his most involved and extended NBA season to date and ended up for the first time in his career missing a major international tournament.

I find it strange that we including players in what is meant to be the best players available to play for Australia that cannot complete yet at this level.

Exum should not have been in the World cup team, in 2 years he maybe ready to play at Olympics. Maker and Simmons have yet to play against Men either and we include them in every team discussion.

Our Teams lack depth because we fill the 8-12 spots with players that are unproven or have not played against men. Playing in high school is a lot different than playing in the World cup or Olympics.

We should not be taking players to World Cup or Olympics to blood them for the future. If they are good and putting in the performances they get picked. Shouldn't be on what they might be like in 4 years time.

"I find it strange that we including players in what is meant to be the best players available to play for Australia that cannot complete yet at this level.

Exum should not have been in the World cup team, in 2 years he maybe ready to play at Olympics. Maker and Simmons have yet to play against Men either and we include them in every team discussion.

Our Teams lack depth because we fill the 8-12 spots with players that are unproven or have not played against men. Playing in high school is a lot different than playing in the World cup or Olympics."

We're looking down the road two years from now. It's all guess work basically. After two years in the NBA playing against the best and going through strength conditioning you'd expect Exum to be a totally different, improved and matured player. Likewise. Simmons will be 19 and ready to head into the draft as a likely number 1 pick. With two years of further development he should be a monster by then.

"You think Simmons is NBA ready now - WOW
He is a talented KID with unbelievable POTENTIAL.

Adel/Bolden for Broekhoff - WOWWWW
Broekhoff just played his first major tournament and was one of our best contributors and shot the 3 at over 60pct while playing solid defence. At 23yrs old and just about to embark on his second season in arguably the toughest league in Europe.

Take a deep breath"

You need to read more carefully. First off, i said college scouts have said that he's NBA ready and i said you COULD replace them. Adel/Bolden have massive potential and if they're tearing it up at college it's not out of the question that one of them would get a roster spot.

And Broekhoff shot it well from 3...and that's really all he did. Make him put it on the floor and he's a turnover waiting to happen.

How about gibbo? He will be 40, that's as good australia will be! Don't understand that if u play nbl u can't play for the boomers bar the ass licker in gibbo. May be that a few nbl player's would have done better than what the other guyz did.

"Scout needs to take a deep breath then and you need to filter what you read.

Broekhoff had 4 turnovers in 6 games. Interesting appraisal."

He's a great three point shooter but other than that he doesn't offer much. If a defense covered him and didn't give him open looks he's useless as a few games proved. His ball handling isn't great and when he puts it on the floor he really can't do much.

"How about gibbo? He will be 40, that's as good australia will be! Don't understand that if u play nbl u can't play for the boomers bar the ass licker in gibbo. May be that a few nbl player's would have done better than what the other guyz did."

From now on the Boomers should be a Europe/NBA players only affair. We need the best players available and the NBL isn't a fantastic league.

"From now on the Boomers should be a Europe/NBA players only affair. We need the best players available and the NBL isn't a fantastic league."


that's why there's a selection process buddy..

individuals are trialled not leagues! a good player is a good player imo.

can coaches get it wrong? of course! but the whole phase is subjective anyway everyone has their own opinions on players..